@cethomson.bsky.social
Investigations Journalist (Newsquest South East) Weekly Reporter of the Year 2024 Crime & Investigative Reporter of the Year 2024 & 2025
A Southend man contacted a child on Snapchat, kept asking to see her breasts and offered to be her first kiss.
When she declined to send photos, saying she was at school, he suggested she go to the bathroom.
Unfortunately for him, she was an undercover cop.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2536630...
Over the coming days, Newsquest will publish a series of in-depth reports on new developments in Essex's notorious White House Farm murders.
But first: How Jeremy Bamber got convicted - and the evidence which has since challenged those convictions.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2536243...
The Metropolitan Police has been accused of giving 'false, misleading' information to Haringey Council about supposed crimes at a Hornsey pub.
A lawyer said he was considering reporting a police officer for a criminal offence under the Licensing Act.
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2532954...
The Metropolitan Police has been accused of giving 'false, misleading' information to Haringey Council about supposed crimes at a Hornsey pub.
A lawyer said he was considering reporting a police officer for a criminal offence under the Licensing Act.
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2532954...
It’s utterly grim that the framing of political stories by political editors is “what does this mean for the prime minister’s authority” instead of “how many disabled people will starve or trans people won’t get the support they need”. It’s like football commentary rather than serving the public.
19.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 87 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 0
Reform UK has refused to acknowledge/respond to questions about Facebook posts in which its Basildon by-election candidate seemingly refers to somebody as 'monkeyfied', a 'monkey c***', a 'monkey piece of s***', and says they 'swing from trees'.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2531388...
Reform UK has refused to acknowledge/respond to questions about Facebook posts in which its Basildon by-election candidate seemingly refers to somebody as 'monkeyfied', a 'monkey c***', a 'monkey piece of s***', and says they 'swing from trees'.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2531388...
Terrorist Ali Harbi Ali, who murdered Southend MP Sir David Amess, was described as a 'great person' and discharged from Prevent after one session, a report has found.
Lord David Anderson said it was among 'a long string of failings' in the case.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2531824...
*EXCLUSIVE*
Thames Water has launched an investigation after an employee accidentally left a racist message on a customer’s voicemail.
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2529460...
A man who cares for his disabled sister claims Camden Council has falsely accused him of abusing her.
He believes he was placed under investigation as ‘revenge’ after challenging cuts to her services and raising concerns about her social worker.
www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2529367...
An east London pensioner killed by two teenagers had suffered years of relentless abuse and crime due to 'local rumour and innuendo', a court has heard.
An inquest will now investigate whether the state could have intervened to save Robert Price's life.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2528703...
Journalists have been banned from looking at armed police officers when they are called to testify at an inquest later this year over how they allegedly shot to death an unarmed mental health patient:
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2528373...
Congratulations! An honour to share a shortlist with you and the other nominees.
26.06.2025 11:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yet another case of agencies supplying stories and case studies that look shaky.
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After the grooming gang inquiry dominated last Monday’s TV news, ‘Harry’ couldn’t sleep, plagued by terrible memories.
The next day, he contacted me with an extraordinary story: in the 1970s, he was trafficked to a VIP paedophile in a Southend hotel.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2525618...
After the grooming gang inquiry dominated last Monday’s TV news, ‘Harry’ couldn’t sleep, plagued by terrible memories.
The next day, he contacted me with an extraordinary story: in the 1970s, he was trafficked to a VIP paedophile in a Southend hotel.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2525618...
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Sussex Police has admitted it has no idea whether phone thefts are rising or falling in the county, as it has stopped counting.
Amid a national government crackdown after an explosion of phone thefts, Sussex said collecting the data was 'non-mandatory'.
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2520255...
An east London bishop says she found the key witness in a murder case in just two attempts - after the beleaguered CCRC spent 18 months claiming it couldn't reach him.
The debacle has left her questioning the miscarriage of justice watchdog's competence.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2524285...
The Argus requested phone theft figures for the past two financial years to see whether Sussex was experiencing a similar spike to other regions, and what proportion of cases were being solved. But Sussex Police said it could not fulfil our request under the Freedom of Information Act as the data does not exist. "Completion of property detail in a report is non-mandatory," the force said. "This is due to a change in process that affects how and when items of stolen property are captured on our crime system."
Sussex Police says it's not recording phone theft data www.theargus.co.uk/news/2520255... by @cethomson.bsky.social
#FOI #crimestats
An east London bishop says she found the key witness in a murder case in just two attempts - after the beleaguered CCRC spent 18 months claiming it couldn't reach him.
The debacle has left her questioning the miscarriage of justice watchdog's competence.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2524285...
An Essex man who admitted sexually abusing a woman he thought was asleep has avoided both prison time and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2519844...
EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police Service faces tough questions after a man was found decomposing in his east London home almost two weeks after his family reported him missing and asked police to start searching for him.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518508...
EXCLUSIVE: The Metropolitan Police Service faces tough questions after a man was found decomposing in his east London home almost two weeks after his family reported him missing and asked police to start searching for him.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518508...
Good.
26.05.2025 18:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jason Moore, currently fighting an East End murder conviction, has backed MPs' calls for Karen Kneller, chief exec of the CCRC, to resign.
After 18 months waiting for his case to be dealt with, he said the body had sent him to 'the depths of despair'.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518803...
Jason Moore, currently fighting an East End murder conviction, has backed MPs' calls for Karen Kneller, chief exec of the CCRC, to resign.
After 18 months waiting for his case to be dealt with, he said the body had sent him to 'the depths of despair'.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2518803...
In response to some recent idiocy:
NEW BLOGPOST: No, the Inns of Court are not biased against white barristers
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EXCLUSIVE: A young woman found her brother's decomposed body after being misled for weeks by a mental health trust into thinking he was alive and well.
Their tearful mother told the trust it could 'keep' its condolences, after it admitted 'shortcomings'.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2516851...
EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Mansfield had already been cremated when his GP received test results showing he'd been killed by cocaine.
A coroner says he will now investigate everyone who had an opportunity to expose the disabled ten-year-old to the lethal drug.
www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/2516548...
